Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints converged on Salt Lake City for the Mormon Church's 12 5th semiannual conference. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Mormons' top policymaking body, the Council of the Twelve Apostles, voiced a plea "that regardless of the party you are affiliated with, you remember the standard the God of Heaven has given and use your influence to help safeguard the country and see that honest, good and wise men are elected to public office...
...devout Mormon who often kneels to pray before a major decision, Chairman Watkins added prayer to the rest of the committee's efforts. He prayed, frequently, that the committee would come to a just and unanimous decision. Said he: "I'm a praying man, and I believe my prayer has been answered...
Party leaders looking for a Senator with judicial experience, forced the job of committee chairman on the reluctant Watkins by telling him that it was his duty to take it. No other argument would have moved him: he is that kind of man, reared in a strict Mormon tradition of service to his community...
...good Mormon, Watkins abhors smoking, does not drink liquor, coffee or tea, often stops to pray before a big debate on the Senate floor. As president of the Sharon (Utah) Stake of the Mormon Church from 1929 to 1946, he took a lead in sponsoring a number of cooperative ventures, e.g., group medical care plans, a phase of his career that later caused consternation among some of his Republican friends...
...Have No Bonanzas. The Territorial Enterprise was launched at Mormon Station in 1858, later settled in Virginia City, where more than 100 saloons and an annual per capita consumption of 22½ gallons of "strong waters," one-third whisky, made it a newspaperman's paradise. The Enterprise's first big story was the war between Nevada's settlers and the Piute Indians. Coverage of shootings, stabbings and embezzlements were always homey. Sample news story...